Download or read book The Nihilist Imagination written by Peter C. Pozefsky and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nihilist Imagination, the first English-language book devoted to this influential nineteenth-century intellectual, explores the convergence between historic developments in literature and politics, the ways young contemporary readers approached novels such as Turgenev's Fathers and Sons when they were first published, the evolution of Russian radicalism during one of its critical phases, and the perceptions of government officials and members of educated society of this emerging radical threat.